The NSW Government is conducting a review of the NSW Public Health Act 2010. Positive Life's Policy Advisor, Lance Feeney talks through what the proposed changes mean for people living with HIV in NSW.

Blaming rejection on your sero-status is pointless and disempowering, writes Lance Feeney. But why are HIV-positive gay men so quick to blame HIV and stigma for their personal woes? When you get ‘no thanks’, it’s likely that you just simply didn’t make the cut.

Minister, members of Parliament, distinguished guests, people living with HIV, sector colleagues. World AIDS Day is a difficult day for many of us. It’s a day tinged with sadness, regret, loss and mixed emotions. We wonder what our lives would have been like if HIV/AIDS hadn’t come along.

Back in the early 2000’s when I was managing the PLC, a poz gay man sidled up to me and asked for a cab voucher to get home. I asked him why he couldn’t take the bus and he replied; “I’ve got HIV fatigue”.

It is a little over a year since the Positive Life NSW President Malcolm Leech died of anal cancer and I've been thinking of him and his commitment to the myriad of health and social issues faced by people's living with HIV.

To help PLHIV navigate the sometimes tricky issue of disclosure in a range of sexual and drug using situations, solicitors Jennifer Smythe and Indraveer Chatterjee from the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre and Positive Life NSW are developing a new plain language resource

PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) is the technical jargon for treatment that can stop you getting infected with HIV after a risky exposure (i.e. “We didn’t use a condom when fucking and I’m worried about HIV”).

On a Friday afternoon at 4pm on the 20th December while most HIV-positive Australians were preparing for the Christmas and New Year Season, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) announced the removal of a regulatory barrier preventing people from starting HIV treatment early.